Labor issues dominated the most-read Current Comments of 2008, sweeping the top four spots on our list. The most popular "CC" was written by Paul Kersey, labor policy director, and dealt with the politically motivated and partisan ballot plan known as "Reform Michigan Government Now.
RMGN, many will recall, was touted as a bipartisan plan to streamline state government and lower legislative salaries. It was gaining widespread support and had received hundreds of thousands of signatures to be placed on the ballot — until a Mackinac Center labor policy intern named Jim Vote discovered this.
A resource page listing several commentaries about RMGN, as well as a sampling of the extensive media attention the Center drew for its role in uncovering the scheme, received enough views to give it top billing, but since it is a compilation, rather than a commentary, it was not included in our final tally.
It must be noted that this annual ranking is not scientific, and individual pieces are chosen based on how many page views they received relative to when in the calendar year they were first posted.
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